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transcendence

[tran-sen-duhns] / trænˈsɛn dəns /






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transcendency
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Transcendence requires human scaffolding; immortality, a benevolent witness: that fellow traveler holding a lantern in a dark wood, telling us like we are.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2021

If the protest anticipated Transcendence, however, it was also itself an echo of another film: The Man in the White Suit.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2018

The Sri-Chinmoy Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race loops around a single block in Queens, New York city – that’s 5,649 laps.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2018

Transcendence can be a selective amnesia: a way to ignore that which causes pain, or carries the whiff of shame, or connects us to a past we would rather forget.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2018

Transcendent triumph in return    No longer lit his brain; Transcendence rayed the distant urn    Where slept the fallen twain.

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas




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